1000 DEATHS A DAY
Hankow Flood and Disease TROOPS DESERT TO REDS Shanghai, August 23. Fearing starvation, the Shansi troops are deserting to join the Reds, increasing the menace to Hankow, where the deaths of 1000 dally are occurring. , The bodies cannot be burled and are floating and spreading disease, which has broken out in the refugee concentration camps. Aerial surveys revealed that 57,000 square miles of country are flooded.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 282, 25 August 1931, Page 9
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701000 DEATHS A DAY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 282, 25 August 1931, Page 9
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